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{mosimage}NAIROBI, Kenya - Following days of violence and death after the announcement of disputed election results, Kenya's Catholic bishops appealed to political leaders to make every effort to engage in dialogue to resolve the crisis.
Daily Mass marks Christian Unity week
By Catholic Register Staff{mosimage}TORONTO - The church has been praying for the unity of Christians for 100 years, and will keep doing so.
Holy Innocents remembered
By Emalyn Franco-Romano, Catholic Register Special{mosimage}TORONTO - Former U.S. president John Fitzgerald Kennedy once said, “Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”
In memory of Chiapas' massacred
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register{mosimage}TORONTO - The number of people gathered in St. Anne’s Catholic Church in downtown Toronto to commemorate the Acteal massacre in Chiapas 10 years ago was about equal to the 45 indigenous Mexicans who were shot down by a paramilitary group in 1997.
Catholic magazine targetted in human rights complaint
By Catholic Register Staff{mosimage}TORONTO - An Edmonton resident has filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission against Catholic Insight, a small Toronto-based magazine of opinion, news and analysis.
Bishops statement on Afghanistan expected soon
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register{mosimage}TORONTO - Canada’s Catholic bishops may have something to say about Canada’s role in Afghanistan before Parliament debates the issue in March.
Bhutto assassination draws papal condemnation
By Anto Akkara, Catholic News Service{mosimage}THRISSUR, India - Catholic leaders in Pakistan and Pope Benedict XVI condemned the assassination at an election rally of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, leader of the opposition Pakistan People’s Party.
Development work in Myanmar next to impossible, aid agencies say
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register“Working in a police state? Well, it certainly means certain restrictions are in place,” wrote Jocelyne Dubois, Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace program officer for Asia in an e-mail from Myanmar.
Jerusalem's Latin patriarch criticizes creation of religious state in Middle East
By Judith Sudilovsky, Catholic News Service{mosimage}JERUSALEM - Jerusalem's Latin patriarch criticized the creation of a religious state of any kind in the Holy Land, saying that a Jewish or Islamic state would not be suitable for Christians.
Native reality brought to Toronto students
By Catholic Register Staff{mosimage}TORONTO - Native teens living in remote northern communities are not provided the same opportunities as southern Canadian teens, said the former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
Latinos find it hard to find a place
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register{mosimage}TORONTO - When Latin American immigrants say Canada is a cold country they’re not talking about the weather. When Hispanics go looking for the warmth of a community that knows and understands them they often find it more readily in Pentecostal and Evangelical churches than in staid and proper Catholic parishes.